Soil Centipede

87 pairs of legs

* The number of leg pairs ranges from 29 to 191 (NEVER an even number!) in about 1000 different species of centipedes.

Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha

Upper San Juan Creek, Riverside County, CA. 10/27/07

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